Reposted by Saille CaiaNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6hwe need to think about how we hold supreme court justices accountable for crimes against humanity. 67920
Reposted by Saille CaiaTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 7hThe Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.talkingpointsmemo.comSupreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration PracticesThe Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration... 104724
Reposted by Saille CaiaKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8hNEW: We launched this tracker in May, when ICE's detentions had been rejected about 10,000 times by federal courts. It's doubled in less than five months. See and sort the latest numbers, plus read the rulings. www.politico.com/news/2026/05... 3305136
Reposted by Saille CaiaDr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them! 895373910
Reposted by Saille CaiaAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food. 25389063892
Reposted by Saille CaiaRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes. 12033251051
Reposted by Saille CaiaDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Impeach, then prosecute. This is a simple cut and dry attempt at vote buying 13611
Reposted by Saille CaiaChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:lawdork.comBreaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prisonSolicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. 18506295
Reposted by Saille CaiaMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:meidasnews.com“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banksWeeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states 44194574484
Reposted by Saille CaiaRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026ICE injured a man they were trying to abduct, resulting in needing ambulance transport for him to Jersey City Medical Center. At the ER, goons posed as police to try and gain access inside. Jersey City PD assisted ICE and escorted them, demonstrating clear collaboration. 33313222
Reposted by Saille CaiaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026These sound like non-trivial problems. 63939226
Reposted by Saille CaiaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...ctmirror.orgThey served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison. 22493288
Reposted by Saille CaiaNoel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12690294
Reposted by Saille CaiaEric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...nytimes.comA Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran. 4451472493
Reposted by Saille CaiaBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.thecityreporter.nycDHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal PlazaA reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst. 14690380
Reposted by Saille CaiaBen Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEWS: DOJ is recruiting military lawyers for October prosecutor posts supporting immigration related law enforcement surges in Manhattan, LA, & Sacramento, per Pentagon email reviewed by @BLaw. I’m told this is unheard of for SDNY. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...news.bloomberglaw.comDOJ Seeks Military Lawyers for New York Law Enforcement SurgeThe Justice Department is enlisting military attorneys as temporary prosecutors supporting law enforcement surges in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, according to a Defense Department email rev... 1912788
Reposted by Saille CaiaAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026NEW: I came across a bookseller who was afraid that a mysterious company trying to buy some of his rarest books was going to use them to train AI models. I went down the rabbithole with him, and was confused and altogether existentially weirded out by what I found www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA bookseller confronts a mysterious company hunting his rarest booksWas a Kentucky retailer targeted by a destructive AI "predator"? 17885382
Reposted by Saille CaiaCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 6356165
Reposted by Saille CaiaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system. 651317718
Reposted by Saille CaiaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026Considering trans women have among the highest rates of HIV, this is an act of social murder. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...advocate.comJudge questions Trump policy forcing HIV providers to disregard transgender patientsA Reagan-appointed judge pressed the administration over rules that providers say could upend their relationships with trans patients. 1338396
Reposted by Saille CaiaRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27574863127
Reposted by Saille CaiaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Kate has good details here about the corrupt Court's latest outrageous decision. But also what it does and what it doesn't. states can only use this in a pretty limited way for the next 90 days. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...talkingpointsmemo.comSupreme Court Lets Trump Use Beefed-Up Citizenship Verification System That Could Hurt Eligible VotersThe Supreme Court on Friday let the Trump administration use its newly-expanded... 8255108
Reposted by Saille CaiaThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 24/09/2026An investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement.bit.lyICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects, report findsAn investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement. 37557304
Reposted by Saille CaiaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finally, segregationists have achieved their dream of capturing the Civil Rights Division and turning it to their own ends 481849695
Reposted by Saille CaiaGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...courtlistener.comMotion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.comEMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve... 72129740
Reposted by Saille CaiaMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you aren't talking about environmental justice in your climate work... you're wasting everyone's time. Time we don't have. 0185
Reposted by Saille CaiaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026I had a conversation with a DEI professional in another country last week, and y'all know I'm a critic of DEI as a framework, but she said something while discussing where the US is on the path to genocide: The goal of DEI work is to prevent genocidal ideas from taking root. 435582
Reposted by Saille CaiaChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.” 201871600
Reposted by Saille CaiaCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 24/09/2026Deeply alarmed by the ICE raids in New Bedford and the South Coast. Disappearing parents on their way to work or to pick up their kids from school is appalling and does NOTHING to keep communities safe. We must abolish ICE and stop this campaign of cruelty and terror. 1019686
Reposted by Saille CaiaJames Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"The proclamation also ended the Bears Ears Commission..., through which the Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni had co-managed the monument..." globalextremism.org/post/project...globalextremism.orgNo Accident: Project 2025 Comes for Public LandsProject 2025’s vision for public lands is becoming policy. Wild horses are being sold into a slaughter pipeline, national monuments have been drastically reduced, endangered species protections weaken... 063
Reposted by Saille CaiaGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksSordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. 13127761313
Reposted by Saille CaiaRobert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026‼️ Weeks before midterms, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications havent been processed due to an error by the DPS. The Texas Association of County Elected Officials say number could be "tens of thousands" - much of them in urban areas.votebeat.orgError means unknown number of Texas voter registrations haven’t been processed yetIt’s unknown how many prospective voters have been affected. 30279164
Saille Caia @saillecaia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This all makes more sense when we accept that these people hate America and really want to destroy every piece of it. 051
Reposted by Saille CaiaKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead: 15502221
Reposted by Saille Caiajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026this is a genuinely crazy story 11955281177
Reposted by Saille CaiaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...theguardian.comNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable onlineExclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad 112958
Reposted by Saille CaiaJonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827851157
Reposted by Saille CaiaBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids 401232437
Reposted by Saille CaiaRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 340127454647
Reposted by Saille CaiaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.popsci.comA chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreadingNew formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields 7314168
Reposted by Saille CaiaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you are a member of NYC-DSA, please consider co-sponsoring a proposed resolution to support 1% for Parks and 0.5% for Libraries in the city expense budget: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...convention.socialists.nycMember Login | 2026 NYC-DSA ConventionConvention 2026 planning tools. 122179
Reposted by Saille CaiaCandice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital. 171595657
Reposted by Saille CaiaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off. 552596992
Reposted by Saille CaiaRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Since the federal takeover, he spends four nights a week pedaling his bike up and down the same streets, recording agents as they arrest his neighbors. On the scene, he lists rights for people getting arrested and asks if they’d like him to contact anyone..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.comHe worked at NASA. Now he tails federal law enforcement on D.C. streets.A group that has tracked the activity of federal officers since the president’s crackdown has previously been private about the effort. 164101603378
Reposted by Saille CaiaSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225311031
Reposted by Saille CaiaKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.nytimes.comRussia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence FindsThe Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said. 19031021696
Reposted by Saille CaiaRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 13519611218
Reposted by Saille CaiaAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 8130831809
Reposted by Saille CaiaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation. 411463806
Reposted by Saille Caialeftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The corruption never ends. 38452602068